Sandlot Characteristics

“The Sandlot” represents the foundation of sport. The kids in this movie played baseball at every opportunity, simply for the love of the game. This attitude towards sport is the purest form of play because they had no one to direct their practice. They did not need a fancy field or fancy uniforms to play well. They were good, because thought they were good. To them baseball was the only reason to go outside, where they could spit, curse, and act like the pros until suppertime.

“Sandlot” takes place during the summer in a small California town, in the early nineteen-sixties. A boy, who in the movie goes by the nickname of Smalls, moves into town. He is trying to adjust to his new stepfather (a baseball fanatic), but moving to a new place does not make this easy. The boys in his new neighborhood play baseball religiously, especially
There are very few women, except for a lifeguard whom one of the boys likes and Smalls’ mother. This shows women being portrayed as accessories or mothers, because the only two women are not pivotal roles. The movie also supports our culture’s way of treating athletes and their reputations as being larger than life with lines like, “heroes get remembered but legends never die”. Which means the story of a hero will last a week or two, but the story and likeness of legends get passed down through generations. As in many other sport films, the real conflict is in the lives of the boys playing the game, not in the game itself. Individually they had dreams and fears and, in many ways, belonging to the sandlot gang helped them discover their own identity. The boys were all terrified of the Beast and the old man because of rumors they have heard and their imagination. After that fateful hit, they learned the truth and eventually had to open themselves up to somebody they had feared for so long. This developed character and tolerance in all of